Identifying-card.



E. G. PICKERING.

IDENTIFYING CARD.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-3,1917.

Patented A r. 16, 1918.

JOHN R. DOE.

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IDENTIFYING-CARD.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 3, 1917. Serial No. 200,017.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, ED IN G. PIOKERI G, a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Montgomery, near the city of Dayton, in the State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Identifying-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and use ful improvement in identifying cards.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an identifying card which may be readily and efiectively attached to the coat of the wearer without the use of a separate fastening element such as a pin. To this end the invention contemplates the provi sion of an integral locking member which cooperates with a flange portion of the card for removably and firmly holding the latter in an identifying position on the wearers coat.

The preferred form of embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a plan view of a card containing my improved identifying part. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the identifying part of the card. Fig. 3 is a front view of a coat, showing the identifying part of the card secured thereto in a manner to display the wearers name in a horizontal position. Fig. 4: is a plan view of a coat to which the identifying part of the card is attached in a way that will display the wearers name on its vertical portion. And Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken through the lapel of the coat, showing how the identifying part of the card is secured thereto for the purpose of displaying the wearers name in a horizontal manner.

Throughout the specification and drawings, similar reference characters denote corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a card on which a horizontal rectangular portion 2 and an integral rightangled portion 3 is outlined. The card portion 3 is adapted to be bent downwardly on a line 4: a short distance from, and preferably parallel with, the top edge of the horizontal portion 2. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) The card portion 3 is also adapted to be bent downwardly along the line on which it is joined to the horizontal portion 2.

Extending forwardly from the line 4: in the card portion 3, is a slot 5, which is adapted to receive a tongue 6. Thisv tongue, which preferablyconforms to the shape of the slot, fdoes not bend on the line 4, but forms an upward extension of the free part of the card portion 3 when the latter is turned down upon said line as shown in Fig. 2, for a purpose to be hereinafter de scribed.

My improved identifying medium may be outlined upon a card 1,as shown in Fig. 1, or it may be made up as a separate unit as shown in Fig. 2. As a component part of the card it is readily mailable, and itsmanufacture in strip form is thereby facilitated.

If the identifying medium is sent out as a part of the card 1, it is severed therefrom by the addressee and applied to his coat as follows. The vertical portion 3 of the card is preferably bent along the line of its joinder to the portion 2, to a position which brings it at an approximately right angle to the latter. The portion 3 is then thrust through the buttonhole in the lapel 7 of the addressees coat 8, after which it is turned downwardly along the line 4:, to a vertical Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

position behind said lapel. As the free end of the card portion 3 is bent downwardly, the tongue 6 thereof is raised to engage the rear portion of the lapel 7 above the buttonhole to cooperate with the free part of the card portion 3 in firmly holding the horizontal or identifying portion 2 on the front of the wearers coat. (See Figs. 3 and 5.)

When the tongue 6 is in its locking position behind the lapel 7 it is in the same vertical plane as the card portion of which it is an extension, forming therewith a lever element whose fulcrum is on the line 4. Accordingly, any pressure exerted by the compressed cloth against the tongue 6, will cause the latter to force the lower end of the card portion 3 into firm engagement with that portion of the lapel 7 below the buttonhole, to firmly lock the horizontal portion 2 of the card in a secure position on the coat 8. It is thus apparent that my improved locking device will maintain the displaying portion 2 of the card in a firm position on the lapel 7 of the wearers coat without the necessity of employing a separate fastening element for that purpose.

If desired, the wearers name may be placed for display upon the vertical portion 3 of the card. In. this case the lockin tongue 6 will be on the outside of the lapei 7, and the horizontal portion 2 on the inside the portion 3 extending through the buttonhole between them.

I do not wish to be limited to the details of construction and arrangement herein shown and described, and any changes or modifications may be made therein within the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. An identifying card having a name receiving portion and a flange portion, a dividing line between said portions, a transverse line on the flange portion, a short dis tance removed from the first line, and a locking element integral with, and always in the same plane as, that part of the flange portion which lies beyond the second line, said locking element lying within an aperture between said lines when the identifyportions, a transverse line on the flange portion, a short distance removed from the first line, and a tongue integral with, and always in the same plane as, that part of the flange portion which lies beyond the said line, said tongue adapted to be raised from a slot between said lines, when that part of the flange portion of which it is an extension, is bent downwardly along the second line.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of November, 1917.

nnwnv e. PICKERING.

Witnesses:

WALTER V. SNYDER, HOWARD S. SMITH.

ames of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iratents,

' Washington, 3D. G. 

